24 October 2011 - Lecture Week 13

Last but not least, week 13 lecture by Steve Molks. Molks is the owner, founder and runner of MolksTVTalks a website where he expresses opinion on televisions. MolksTVTalks website link: http://molkstvtalk.com/ MolksTVTalks review television extensively, from reviews, recaps and ratings.

Molks believe that television remains as an important part of people life and the only thing that changes is how people consume television. Another thing that he said was the importance of social media. Social media nowadays is also part of people culture. A good journalist should always now what is in the trend now and a good way to follow the trend is Twitter.

This concludes the last lecture, but this is not the end to this blog :) I will still post interesting things in my life (at least interesting for me). Anyway good night for now, it is 10 pm.Time to sleep, adios... By the way what's wrong with blogspot time system, it says 23:53...gee...

17 October 2011 - Lecture Week 12

Yay!! We have finally arrive in week 12, just 1 more to go. I really love this lecture because that was the first time I step into Schonell Theatre and also it was a very different lecture than before, we got a change of environment and it was watching a documentary which I totally love :) The documentary is title Page One: Inside New York Times. It was release in 2011.

Trailer on youtube:

Have you seen the trailer? It is awesome*skipping walk*. I'm damn tired of people asking why I study journalism and have I really considered my future before taking this major. They make such a light deal of journalism, saying journalism is dead, useless and pay little. Hello there people! Check out this trailer, journalism is alive and healthy, yeah it may got some bruises here and there but the center is alive and well!

This documentary is a very inspiring documentary about New York Times. There was this guy named David Carr who is a senior journalist in New York Times. He became the main narrator of the documentary. Many issues for journalism these days is presented. One of the issue is twitter and other social medias. Carr joked that a new guy who was a blogger before he came to NYTimes might be a robot created to replace him. The documentary also shows economic issue with ads profit decreases 30% and stuffs. They had to lay off 100 people. The economic downturn for NYTimes can also be attributed to the feeling of free news entitlement.


Another big challenge for New York Times was WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks put a video about Iraq War from anonymous source on youtube. What WikiLeaks done put journalism under pressure including NYTimes. People buzzed about WikiLeaks and WikiLeaks came under the spotlight in media. In the early minutes of the documentary, the new guy interviewed Julian Assange whether he is a journalist or an activist in which Assange replied that he prefers being an activist rather than a journalist because his goal is justice.


A good thing is that when someone in the documentary said that you can get all kind of soft news on online fast media but hard news such as war requires investigative journalism and nothing can replace it. One thing that remains a very encouraging message was the last quote, "Journalism is alive, well and feisty, especially, at the New York Times." Cheers people :)

10 October - Lecture Week 11

On week 10, I learned about Investigative Journalism. Yuck, bleh...I have been writing the same opening "on week X, I learned about..." I better think of a new one. Let's start again.

On 10 October 2011, for the 11th lecture, I learned about investigative journalism.

There are 4 purposes of investigative journalism:

1) Critical and thorough journalism

2) Custodians of conscience

3) Provide and protect people without voice

4) Becoming a watchdog toward government and public

There are three types of investigation method: 1) interviewing, 2) observing, and 3) analysing documents. Because of these methods to surveys and investigates facts, investigative journalism takes a huge amount of time and effort. On the other hand, online news, the biggest rival of investigative journalisms takes less amount of time, less amount of effort and thus, less amount of journalists. Another bleak future of journalism...

03 October - Lecture Week 10

It seemed that I took a long break yesterday, sorry I was caught up in a new Sims 3 Pets Limited Edition :) So now I have, once again, braced myself not to be distracted and focus on my assignments. Hix ToT I still have 3 lectures to go after this one...

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On week 10, I learned about news value. News value is the degree of prominence a media outlet gives to a
story, and the attention that is paid by an audience (i.e. how important is this news, what effects will it gives and why should the reader know about the issue). News values and newsworthiness have many factors:

1) Negativity = bad news/tragedy
2) Closeness to home = how relatable the audience is geographically
3) Recency = freshness
4) Currency = money value of a news (i.e. can it be a long shot series?)
5) Continuity = events that continue for a long period (i.e. war)
6) Uniqueness = how different/unique a story is
7) Simplicity = a simple true story that is more preferable than a confusing one
8) Personality = stories that centre around a particular person (i.e. celebrity stories)
9) Expectedness/predictability = does the event match public predictions?
10) Elite nations or people = news involving powerful nations/people, for example, politicians
11) Exclusivity = if a news person or media is the first or the only media that cover the story
12) Size = the bigger the impact, the better

Russel Peters

How come I had never known about this guy? I was strolling around in youtube and I found this guy's joke about Indian and he is freaking hilarious. I was laughing my ass off and my roommate shouts at me. Russell Peters is a Canadian Indian who makes fun of Indian, well not only Indian, he makes fun of everyone, English, Asian (he loves Asian :D), Jamaican, Jewish, Arabs, etc. He might seems racist but I have to admit it that he is funny and he makes fun of everyone so he is not a racist. His jokes are also gross sometimes, but his grossness is also funny. 

Check out the video below. He is telling you to beat your kids and also, look at that middle finger.

I wonder why this guy never comes to Australia, he will surely make a good laugh of Australian. There are other funny videos of him on youtube and if you have time, watch them.

19 September - Lecture Week 9

On week ninth, we learned about agenda setting. Agenda setting is the process of mass media presenting certain issues. There are two types of agenda setting theory:
1) First level: media inform public on what issue they should focus on
2) Second level: media suggest how public should to think with the issue

Agenda setting is about:

1) Media Gatekeeping: controlling the exposure of an issue towards public

2) Media Advocacy: promotion of a message for example dental health

3) Agenda Cutting: when issues are not represented in media

4) Agenda Surfing or 'bandwagon effect': when public opinion forms other opinions

5) The Diffusion of News: the process of communicating an issue to the public

6) Portrayal of an Issue: the way media portray an issue will influence public perception towards it

7) Media Dependence: the more dependent person towards the media, the more susceptible the person is.

One of an interesting point of the lecture is the media setting assumption that media filters and shapes reality. In one of my last posts was about a documentary I watched, FOXNews. One of a scene in it was that FOXNews announced the election result before the votes were fully counted. FOXNews 'shaped reality' and Bush became president. The power of media to shape reality is quiet true at some events but I hope that I will not become one of this failing journalists that filter and shape the reality.

12 September - Lecture Week 8

It seemed that I have taken my exam preparation week too lightly and have done nothing...I regret it so much, for the past two days I had been thinking that I should do something and ended up doing nothing. For today, I have braced myself and continue this blog :D There are still many other assignments to do though. Now, I am going to write about lecture week 8. Following last lecture, this lecture is about public media.

Public media is a media that serves public. Public media used to be funded by taxpayers but now it is more into profit. Australian public media is the ABC or Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Other examples of public media is British's BBC and Japan's NHK.

       

Public media should have public value. According to BBC public value consists of 'public service ethos', value for licence fee money, comparing 'public value' versus 'market impact' and public consultation. Public media also functions for nation building, national heritage, national identity and national conversations. Public media news style is serious, broadsheet style, importance over interest and considered. This results in view that public media is boring, of limited interest, poorly presented and out of touch.

There are two scary facts about public media: 1) they are deprived of fund, 2) they have many enemy. Because it is funded by government, the funding is often stunted as some may think that public media is a waste of tax. Because of the limited budget there are only small workers used in public media. Second, because public media is often seen by government as enemy because public media serves the public instead of government even though the funding is regulated by government. Worse of worst, the second fact contributes the most to the first fact :( Reading this is quiet a bleak future, isn't it?

Assessment 3 - Annonated Bibliography

The important role of celebrity culture in journalism have generated studies over the past years, one of it is Snyder’s (2003) journal article. He notes on how celebrity shows has replaced the prime time televisions and that the reporter were infiltrating the celebrity’s private lives. Michael Jackson’s death has put the spotlight on Conrad Murray. His case has been broadcasted on three media, MTV, Sydney Morning Herald and SkyNEWS, with his personal emotion is publicly shown.

Snyder, R.W. (2003). American Journalism and the Culture of Celebrity. Reviews in American History, 31(3), 440-448.

Robert W Snyder is an Associate Professor of Rutgers’ Graduate Program in American Studies and an Associate Professor in Department of Arts, Cultures and Media (Rutgers, n.d.). Since 1980, he has worked with journalists, museum curators, and documentarians (Rutgers, n.d.). With his experiences in American media, Snyder wrote a journal article which is also an annotation about the culture of celebrity in American Journalism. This journal article is based on Ponce de Leon (2002)’s book. Snyder noted on the power of journalism over celebrity, turning Michael Jackson as irresponsible parents and prime time television into a group of celebrity shows. Since early 1900’s, celebrity has been a culture in American Journalism. Reporters were and are following the celebrity’s private life. Many journalists today believe that their task is to inform the “powerless” and supervise the “powerful”. These journalists believed that they are hindered by celebrity journalists, especially after 9/11, and wishes to return journalism into traditional journalism. This piece offers a general idea about celebrity and journalist. It is regrettable, however, that Snyder does not explain on how the celebrity has become a root on American journalism and how the 9/11 deeply impacted celebrity journalism. This piece, however, thoroughly explore the significance of celebrity culture on American journalism.

Kaufman, G. (2011, October 26). Michael Jackson Doctor Brought To Tears By Former Patients’ Testimony. MTV. Retrieved from http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1673244/michael-jackson-trial-conrad-murray-patients.jhtml.

Gil Kaufman is a senior writer at MTV (LinkedIn, n.d.). He also worked as the Editorial Director of Cincinnati Art Museum, A&E Editor in Cincinnati Enquirer and Senior Writer or Senior Editor at Sonicnet or Addicted to Noise (LinkedIn, n.d.). Having been working as celebrity journalists for more than the past 10 years, Kaufman covers the news about Michael Jackson’s doctor’s trial. He reports how Conrad Murray cried when his defense team brought five witnesses to trial with the purpose of attesting Murray’s skill as a physician. When one witness said that he is alive thanks to the doctor in front of him, Murray cried. The author gives a detailed report on the trial and successfully investigates the available information. The problem is how he presents this information. In spite of writing a news article, Kaufman wrote his article in dot points. Each dot points consist of a paragraph at the length of fifty to more than one hundred words which represent a scene of the trial. His writing technique is efficient but not engaging. It is written like a memo rather than a news article. The author, however, manages to take his target audience into consideration by using simple language instead of technical language. The date in which it was published is also appraisable, it was published faster than the others.

Sydney Morning Herald. (2011, October 27). Jackson doc moved to tears by testimony. Retrieved from http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/jackson-doc-moved-to-tears-by-testimony-20111027-1mlc9.html  

Sydney Morning Herald is a newspaper published by Fairfax Media. This particular article is published in their website. Similar to the previous news article, Sydney Morning Herald also cover how Conrad Murray shed tears after his witnesses defend him. In this piece, the story focuses on Ruby Mosley, an old woman who was a witness in Murray’s trial. She testified that Murray is not greedy for serving senior citizens with fixed incomes. Her testimony brought Murray into tears. The other four witnesses also noted Murray’s kindness; one of them even claims that Murray is his best friend. Compared to the previous article, this article is more compelling and more fleshed out. Rather than presenting all the information obtained, this article linked each of its information into a story. The focus is not all over the place but to an old woman whose testimony makes Murray cry. This article manages to bring emotions from its characters to life. Each of the characters was described well and the reader could easily picture the trial in their mind. This news article is a very compelling article indeed.

Gardner, D. (2011, October 27). Mail Online. Retrieved from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053960/Michael-Jackson-trial-Conrad-Murray-weeps-patients-rush-defence.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

David Gardner is a crime writer and senior foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail (uFollow, n.d.). On 27 of October 2011, Gardner wrote about Murray’s tears on trial. In his article, he quoted each of the witnesses’ testimonies about Murray. Unlike the previous articles, he provides more photos including photos of each witness and several shoots of Murray’s expressions. He also provides captions for each photo. Compared to the other two articles, his article is more eye-catching; however, is not as compelling as Sydney Morning Herald’s article. He uses adjectives as little as possible and is less descriptive of the characters expressions and surrounding. His article is not bad, in fact, it is a good article, but it fall out of favor compared to Sydney Morning Herald’s (2011) article. Another problem is probably how he ends his story. He put the last sentence in separate paragraph consisting of three words ‘The trial continues’. This ending seemed to be left out and unfinished.

References:

Gardner, D. (2011, October 27). Mail Online. Retrieved from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053960/Michael-Jackson-trial-Conrad-Murray-weeps-patients-rush-defence.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Kaufman, G. (2011, October 26). Michael Jackson Doctor Brought To Tears By Former Patients’ Testimony. MTV. Retrieved from http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1673244/michael-jackson-trial-conrad-murray-patients.jhtml.

LinkedIn. (n.d.). Gil Kaufman. Retrieved from http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gil-kaufman/5/299/4a4.

Ponce de Leon, C. L. (2002). Self-Exposure: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America. Chapel Hill: University of North California Press.

Rutgers. (n.d.). Robert W. Snyder. Retrieved from http://americanstudies.newark.rutgers.edu/staff/rsnyder.htm

Snyder, R.W. (2003). American Journalism and the Culture of Celebrity. Reviews in American History, 31(3), 440-448.

Sydney Morning Herald. (2011, October 27). Jackson doc moved to tears by testimony. Retrieved from http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/jackson-doc-moved-to-tears-by-testimony-20111027-1mlc9.html

uFollow. (2011). David Gardner. Retrieved from http://www.ufollow.com/authors/david.gardner.1/

Documentaries!

One of my favorite genre is documentary. How great documentary is, they provide entertainment and knowledge at the same time. They also have a huge range of topics. I have been watching National Geographic's documentaries and several other documentaries but these are my favourites:

1. National Geographic's Sizing Up Sperms (The Great Sperm Race)

This is possibly the most extraordinary and most creative documentary I have ever seen. It does not just show you white threads with overblown heads in a diagram of female body. This documentary sizes up sperms into a human scale and simulates their surrounding to a more understandable challenges they face. It is very informative and funny. It must have required high budget but it was worth it. It makes me feel proud for being the winner against another more than 100 millions challengers in the greatest race in universe, even more fascinating than The Amazing Race. Imagine the challenges, the hardships and surprises to a tiny sperm just to reach the egg. People always fall asleep on top biology books but this documentary is really interesting, the visualization and background music is also amazing. What's more awesome is how creative the creator of this show is, how can he or she thinks about scaling up sperms into human, racing through beautiful landscapes. I raise my 2 thumbs up for this show :D My favorite scenes? When the human-sperms are being shot through water tunnels, screaming. After watching this show, I bet you will think twice of wasting your sperms. Pity those little creatures!

2. Wikileaks

I have always been fascinated by secret societies: the Illuminati, the Freemasons, and now, Wikileaks. These people are completely anonymous except their spoke person, Julian Assange and certain staffs. They leak secret documents such as Iraq war logs. Their popularity sky rocketed when a video was leaked. The video show US army shooting civilians walking on a Baghdad street using helicopter. Wikileaks have become an important figure in history against the giant country, America. Many people argue if Wikileaks is right or wrong. Because of Wikileaks a new issue about internet censorship also comes to spotlight. What do you think? Do you agree on internet censorship? I don't, an information should be unrestricted. People have the right of acquiring information that concern them and the government has no right to restrict that. this documentary provokes mind and thought about war and politic. It is a must see documentary.

3. Outfoxed
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6737097743434902428
Outfoxed is a very detailed documentary, the only problem it has is that it is too one sided. After watching the documentary, you will think that Republican is full of shit, Rupert Murdoch is a total jackass and FOX News is a total garbage. It is though, very convinving. It thoroughly researches it materials and sources. Presenting several researches and surveys on the effect of FOX News. The video show us the scary part of media and why people hates journalists nowadays. Watching the show reminds me of George Orwell's 1984, in which the government can manipulate their history and people's mind through media, changing history and facts. One of the interesting scene is when Bill O'Reily shouting shut up to his guests which is totally opposite of a good television host (remember week 4 lecture?). I recommend you to watch this to see how bad it is when facts and opinions are blurred in the name of journalism and try to think how to fix it :D

My Cactus

I have bought this cactus a month ago but I have not have the chance to put him in this blog. Introducing Togemaru, my lovely cactus. :D I picked her name based on her figure, she is thorny (Toge) and round (Maru). Well I am not sure if it is a he or a she (does it even have sex?) but she has flowers so possibly female.

Living overseas alone can be really boring and where I live does not permit any pet, so I buy this thing live with me. Don't think that I am so lonely or miserable, I just like to have a 'me' time sometimes and I like to tell someone of my problems without worrying to be leaked out. Togemaru is an awesome companion, she only drinks 2 spoonful of water once a week, does not pee, does not chew on furniture and quiet. She is a beauty too :)

About her name, because of her white thorns I was thinking of giving her name like Snow White or Esmeralda (what is the connection of white and Esmeralda?) but then when I was flipping through baby names, a Japanese name comes up, Togemaru. Well it sure is an unfitting name for your children but it is perfect for my cactus :)

Hi Togemaru, how are you today? XOXO

Death and Afterlife

For as long as human history, we have tried to look for an answer for death. ‘What happen when we die’ and ‘what will happen after we die?’. These questions have always been around for centuries and many answers have been offered resulting rituals and beliefs. We know that our body decomposes or burnt when we die, but how about our souls?

The idea of what happens when we die has varied from philosophical to a more scientific view. A philosopher from Sicily, Empedocles (c. 490-430 BC) believes that when human dies, our bodies separated into four elements: air, water, earth and fire. Science says that when a human’s heart stop beating and the lungs stop breathing, in minutes, the brain which runs out of oxygen begins to release toxin and order the cells to self destruct resulting in death. How about our soul then? In 1931, Dr Duncan McDougall, in his scientific research of weighing human soul concludes that soul has weight as when human dies, their weight decreases 21 grams. Where do our 21 gram souls go?

A number of beliefs such as ghost, rebirth, heaven and hell have always been featured in classic afterlife stories. The Egyptians believe that their Pharaohs have to go through several obstacles and challenges to return into life. Based on this belief, pyramids for pharaoh are decorated with the bible of death to guide their pharaohs in the afterlife. In an Ancient Greek Mythology, Hades is known to be the God of the underworld where human souls go after they die. Buddhist believes in rebirth, they believes that death is when our soul leaves our body on earth to be reborn into 6 realms of heaven, human beings, Asura, hungry ghost, animal and hell, based on our karma. Christians believes that when we die we will go to be judged and stayed either in heaven or hell forever.

So far science has not been able to explain afterlife. What science has observed is when human is dies, mass amounts of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), the most powerful psychedelic known, gets pumped to our body and created psychedelic experiences which are known as near death experience. Still, they cannot answer when people who return from death claims to float on air seeing their bodies. Afterlife may exist or may not exist at all. The problem is what you believe.

5 September - Lecture Week 7

See how motivated I am, I even write more than one post today hahahaha, anyway, in week 7 we learned about Commercial Media. Media is Based on their purpose, media is divided by two, commercial media and public media (will be covered in the next post). Commercial media is created for profit, it is not government funded and generate its profit from advertisement by guaranteeing audiences. The major players of commercial media are News Limited, Fairfax Media, Nine Entertainment Co., Win Corporation, Southern Cross Broadcasting, Seven West Media and Ten. Their production ranges from newspaper to digital media.

Commercial  media has commercial form, with 3 variants: subscription, sponsored and subsidised, and functions as commercial, propaganda and social. Based on Hutchins Comission 1947, there are 5 social responsibilities of media in a democracy:

1.a truthful, comprehensive, and intelligent account of the day’s events in a context which gives them meaning;
2.a forum for the exchange of comment and criticism;
3.the projection of a representative picture of the constituent groups in the society;
4.the presentation and clarification of the goals and values of the society;
5.full access to the day’s intelligence.

Commercial media, therefore, is expected to deliver commercial and social (public trust) functions. To achieve these, there are 5 things to keep commercial media under control:
1. Formal State Requirement
2. Legal prescription
3. State oversight
4. Statutory
5. Voluntary
Some new social controls include government agency that regulates content, state press subsidies and licensed journalism.

Style of commercial media has 3 keywords: corrupt, profit and low quality. Because of this style, the results of commercial media are dumbing-down its audiences, tabloidisation, the desire to please and 'Mickey Mouse' news. With the current challenges of commercial news such as less revenue from advertisements, there are four solutions: better quality, greater competition, move existing customer to digital and paywalls on internet sites.

29 August 2011 - Lecture Week 6

As I have been late for weeks, I have to start writing everything during the week. It is good because I have nothing to do, being stranded in Wagga Wagga, a country-town somewhere in the between Melbourne and Sydney. Rather than listening to my friend and his boyfriend enjoying their time in the next room, it is better to do my assignments and studies. In week 5, I learned about Web News.

Nowadays we divided media into two kinds, old media and new media. Old media is media that is created and developed during the 19th century and the first half of 20th century. This include print media, television, radio and Web 1.0. Web 1.0 or "brochure ware" is one way communication with content surrounded by ads. New media is Web 2.0 or "social web", the one we are using now. Examples of Web 2.0 is facebook and twitter, where the content is user generated. Web 2.0 generated the term "Prod-Users", where the users are producers. Web 3.0 or "the semantic web" introduces "meta-tagging". Web 3.0 is about hyperlocalisation and specific content delivery.

When news have been spread for free on the web, people believes that they are entitled to it and, therefore, web news are said to be the death of journalism. Now, Rupert Murdoch, founder and chairman of News Corporation is looking for a way so that people pay for news on the web. Online news that established subscription such as The Times try to give privileges on members and Courier Mail is about to do paywall. The question is what happens if people don't subscribe?

22 August 2011 - Lecture Week 5

Right now, I am not in a very good mood as my mouth tastes really salty. I was cooking by following a recipe and it calls for salt and pepper for seasoning. I forgot that I had to put soy sauce later and I put 3 pinches of salt. As I put the soy sauce I thought it would be fine because I will let the salt evaporate, later, I found out that salt do not evaporate. It is now incredible salty...and I still have to eat it because that is the last meat for the day... So, even if I have a very salty mouth right now, I have to write week 5 lecture because I am late for 2 weeks already...

Week 5 - Lecture

This week's lecture is about ethics. First let's look at grid below:

The grid above is used to measure value of public communication (i.e. advertisements, movies, books). The top left corner means the best and the bottom right one is the worst. The problem is how do we measure ethics?

There are 3 ethical theories:

1. Deontology --> includes rules, principles, and duties. All ethic codes are deontological.
2. Consequentialism (theology) --> relies on results. As long as the result is good, the process does not matter. 
3. Virtue --> relies on characters. Goodness come from virtues such as courage, justice, temperance and prudence which are mean of behaviour

In journalism, there are 4 codes:

1. MEAA code --> honesty, fairness, independence and respect for the rights of others
2. AFA code:
   1. Stand up for what you believe is right.
   2. Honour all agreements.
   3. Don't break the law. Don't bend the law.
   4. Respect all people.
   5. Strive for excellence in everything you do.
   6. Give clients your best efforts and advice, without fear or favour.
   7. Look after your colleagues.
   8. Compete fairly.
   9. Think before you act.
   10. Be honest.
3. AANA code --> treat sex and its references with care,  use appropriate language, avoid violence except when it is justifiable in the context, avoid discrimination in any forms.
4. PRIA code

Journalism codes, however, did not work effectively due to gaps in its jurisdictions. Ethics and values are choices. A good journalist, I believe, should follow this ethics from the heart and not by forces of others.

Assessment 1 - Personal Media use and Production Diary

Advanced media and technology have contributed greatly in daily life. Whether as entertainment or study, media transfers information from and to us. Seeing the importance of knowing media use pattern and analyse the reason of it, for fourteen days, I recorded my media use.

1.       Print media

a.       Books

·         The Joy Luck Club

·         Cooking books, for example: Desserts and a little bit of…Japan

b.      Magazine

·         Readers Digest (a new issue was delivered on 10^th of August 2011)

·         National Geographic (a new issue was delivered on 9^th of August 2011)

c.       Readings (Recommended and required readings)

·         Text books

·         Printed readings

2.       Cell phone

a.       Short Message Service (SMS) or texting

b.      Call

Mostly International Call was made to Indonesia when waiting for bus

3.       Laptop

Laptop is the most used media for entertainment, communication, studying and others. 80.69% of media use is allocated in laptop.

a.       Music

Includes audio and music video. On 14^th and 15^th of August 2011, I listened to 2PM’s Hands Up in loop while doing assignments.

b.      Video

Both online and offline video.

·         Korean dramas

Heartstrings and Scent of a Woman.

·         Korean variety shows

Running Man, Win Win, Happy Together and Family Outing.

·         Movies

Ip Man, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Strangers Tide, Winnie the Pooh and Law Abiding Citizen.

·         Documentaries

Outfoxed and Wikileaks

c.       Social Networking Service (SNS)

They are only opened to check notifications, view and reply posts, post on walls and updating status.

·         Facebook

·         Twitter

d.      Blogging

·         Blogspot

·         Livejournal

e.      E-mail

I check e-mails almost every day to sort messages in inbox, view and reply e-mails and clean spam and trash.

f.        Chat

I chat to keep in contact with family and friends in Indonesia, when they are available I will chat to them.

·         Microsoft Network (MSN) Messenger

·         Yahoo Messenger

·         Skype

g.       Online News

To update myself with the latest world news and celebrity news, mostly I open:

·         Yahoo news, to check world news.

·         Allkpop, to check Korean celebrity news.

·         Good News from Indonesia, to check Indonesian news.

·         Brisbane Times, to check Australian news.

h.      University of Queensland (UQ)

All media used for my subjects, this includes:

·         Power Points

·         Lectopias

·         UQ websites (Si-net, Blackboard, MyUQ and MyMail+)

·         Online readings

·         Other documents (modules and worksheets)

i.         Other browsing

Other internet activities that does not fit in any of above categories.

·         Recipe websites (Tasty Kitchen and Sumo Kitchen)

·         Checking updates for Korean dramas and variety shows

·         Online comics

·         Forums

·         Downloading

In total, I used media for 8047 minutes in two weeks. On average, every day I used 9.58 hours on medias which makes up 39.92% of my day. To think that I rely on media heavily, I do not think that I can survive without the existing media and technology as who I am now is shaped by these media.

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